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UK Charity Registration No.1124076 Tel: 02380 462926
100% of all donations received will go to fund health care, education and poverty relief projects.
All necessary expenses are met privately by volunteers.
© 2009 Rigul Trust . All rights reserved | UK Charity, health care, education, poverty relief, Tibet and India |
A purpose built school, the first ever, has been built and now takes about 65 children a day, including 24 girls. Many children walk for over an hour each way to get to school. Last year enough donations came in to give all 65 children two hot meals a day at school for a year......
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We started our fundraising for Rigul and other Tibetans when we heard about the poverty and hardship in Tibet......
Rigul Trust is a UK Charity whose main aim is to provide funds for the provision of basic health care, education and poverty relief amongst Tibetan refugee communities in India, and in particular for the people of some of the most remote areas of Tibet, such as Rigul. We fund schools, health clinics and basic welfare projects in Tibet and India.
Download our latest newsletter No.5 & catch up with progress on all our health care and education projects in Tibet and India
NEW ADDITION! Buy DVD’s and audio CD recordings of Buddhist teachings given by Tibetan Buddhist Lama Ringu Tulku Rinpoche:
pdf list & ordering info.....Ringu Tulku Teachings 2009
pdf list & ordering info.....Full List of Available Teachings by Ringu Tulku
Sell your unwanted items for Rigul Trust with ‘ebay for charity’ for poverty relief in Tibet and India
Health Care & Education
A modest contribution can achieve so much in these poor communities.....
The Health Clinic costs £7.50 per day.
Doctor Chuga costs £2.50 per day.
Doctor Chuga’s assistant costs 30 pence per day.
Child’s schooling plus 2 meals costs 50 pence per day.
Yushu is in Qinghai province, an impoverished area largely populated by Tibetans.
More than 2,064 are dead and 12,000 more injured, 70% of the buildings in the town
have been flattened, leaving thousands of survivors homeless and shivering in tents
overnight in sub-
Help by spreading the word
Yes, we want your old ink cartridges and mobile phones which will then be recycled and so prevent yet more rubbish and landfill and earn money for Rigul Trust poverty relief projects!
Over 50 million ink cartridges per year are thrown away in the UK and end up in land fill sites where they will take over a 1,000 years to decompose. In the UK alone an estimated 15 million mobile phones are discarded every year and over 100 million are hoarded as they still have a monetary value.
India's Ladakh region has been hit by flash floods and huge mudslides,causing widespread devastation and loss of life.
The floods came after a cloudburst in the middle of the peak tourist season in Ladakh,
an usually arid and cold high-
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You can now read topical updates on our fundraising and new projects and leave your own comments by visiting our BLOG, ....
